The Northern Illinois Conference is accepting Equitable Compensation applications for the final 2026 disbursement and for the 2027 grant cycle. Churches and charges with a full-time pastor experiencing financial hardship are encouraged to apply for assistance to help ensure equitable compensation for clergy across the conference.
Read MoreThe 2027 apportioned budget for the Northern Illinois Conference will be $5,647,000, which is an increase of $539,000 over the 2026 approved budget. Apportionment receipts for 2025—the most recent numbers available—reached 80 percent of the amount apportioned, which is the highest percentage since 2016.
Read MoreAs United Methodists, we have as one of our values a shared communal life together, and one of the ways we express that is through our apportionment support, says Rev. Michael Mann, the incoming chair of the Conference Council on Finance and Administration.
Read MoreThank you for your commitment to sharing your gifts for the good of our United Methodist Church and its ministries. In 2025, you gave $5,056,797—80 percent of our budgeted goal to support missions and ministries. This is the highest percentage we have achieved since 2016.
Read MoreThis time of year invites both gratitude and reflection amid the busyness of the season. In this message, NIC Council on Finance and Administration lay member Thomas Newby encourages faithful and sacrificial giving as an expression of gratitude and stewardship. Citing James 2:21–22, he reminds us that faith and action work together to serve “the least of these” in our communities.
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